Blocking Single Gene Prevents Obesity in Fat-Fed Mice

Our bodies have evolved over millions of years to be very efficient at storing energy from excess food as fat deposits, as a key biological survival mechanism for times of food scarcity. Today, when so many of us have an abundance of calorie-rich, high-fat food readily available, the same survival mechanism that is so good at storing fat means that obesity has become a growing global issue.  Studies in mice by scientists at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have now shown how it is po